Hey guys, recently i have noticed that on my phone, when taking pictures in low light settings, It has these weird "lines" across the image. Whether the "lines" are horizontal or vertical, they are there.
For example, the images i have uploaded. This one has the horizontal "lines"
I have searched across the net, and I am not able to find any low-light settings with these problems. So... Do you guys think my Captivate has a bad camera? maybe, a bad sensor or something like that :O
P.S. Yes, i know i need a new keyboard xP
I didn't see any lines on that picture
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Its on the bottom of the picture. Its not like a black line but it is like a line of noise x.x
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It's a bad camera, but it's not just you.
There's a reason why high end phones have LED lights. You can't create light out of nothing.
Wait... so is it a bad unit, or is it normal for the camera in low light conditions?
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dude your keyboard is disgusting....i think i would have to wash my hands after using it
on another note....my first phone had a pink dot in all the pics i took, att store exchanged it without a question. no lines, but to me it kinda sounds normal
OP, I took a picture last night and it had the same effect. Disappointing because it was alot worse and it my favorite out of 70. Ugh.
I can't really provide any input on your Q though. I assume mine was just a fluke, but you say it happens every time for you.
buddy17 said:
dude your keyboard is disgusting....i think i would have to wash my hands after using it
on another note....my first phone had a pink dot in all the pics i took, att store exchanged it without a question. no lines, but to me it kinda sounds normal
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Lol, well I still haven't gotten a definite answer x.x is this a problem, or is it normal for the camera in low light conditions? >_>
Btw, if it is pass the 30 days and I go to at&t, will they exchange it, or would have to go through warranty with samsung?
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david717 said:
OP, I took a picture last night and it had the same effect. Disappointing because it was alot worse and it my favorite out of 70. Ugh.
I can't really provide any input on your Q though. I assume mine was just a fluke, but you say it happens every time for you.
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It doesn't happen everytime, only times with low lighting.
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My phone does it too... its normal.
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Ah, I see those lines. They are normal even in high end DSLRs. You have to increase the ISO quality,that means use the lowest number say 100. However, when you do this, blur is more obvious.
However, I also noticed that our camera's sensor isn't really good. I tried ISO 100 and timed. I also was not holding the camera. It took a sharp picture but it still produced the noise on dark parts of the image. Taking pictures using DSLRs on ISO 100 doesn't produce those noise. I'm really not expecting too much from this phone since it's got a very small sensor.
Ok. Thanks. My camera lenses was also kind of dirty and I cleaned it and it helped a little. But thanks for all the help
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Hey guys I have found another tweak. In our build.prop I noticed ro.mediacapture.torchintensity=40. Upping this increases the flash brightness in the camcorder. Also ro.media.capture.flashintensity=70 upping this increases the flash brightness in camera.
I confirmed they made a difference. Tried last night taking a picture at stock setting, then a picture with it upped to 100. Then did the same with the camcorder.
Try raising those values to what you feel comfortable with and let me know if they have helped you guys.
WARNING! Obviously too high would kill battery quicker if taking many shots or long videos. But this definitely works.
Heres an interesting concept. Can we adjust a setting to get 8mp widescreen? If possible would be amazing! Havent been able to figure this one out though.
Be careful turning the flash to high.you could burn the led out.
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Izeltokatl said:
Be careful turning the flash to high.you could burn the led out.
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I hear ya, but considering led last alot longer than regular lights I wouldn't worry than much. Besides that why we have warranties.
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I hear ya, but considering led last alot longer than regular lights I wouldn't worry than much. Besides that why we have warranties.
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They may last longer under normal circumstances, but oh man can they die fast. Be VERY careful with how bright you make it and for how long it stays on for. You an burn out the diode very quickly.
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Dont have to put it at 100 if you dont want to. Just pointing out that it most definitely helps. Make it what you feel confortable. It definitely improves low light video and pictures.
upping the brightness wouldn't be so bad if there was a way to deflect the light. taking camcorder pictures with the flash on is great in most any light situation, but because it's a direct light, you get washed out colors and red eye problems.
i wish there were an easy to deflect the light too.
Well its adjustable so you guy can fine the setting that best suits you guys. Keep in mind its only a phone if we want better quality we should use cameras. That being said, upping these values at least gets us a respectable picture or video in low light, a picture worth keeping that doesn't just get deleted after we go back and check it.
check this out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGQ49MOIlcA
another here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ncrd6DOIA
Nothing special, to be honest. As mentioned in one of the comments under the video, he should have had the camera straight over the phones at the 90 degrees angle and set brightness equally. To me it doesn't seem as if the brightness was set equally... But maybe that's only me.
Aside from that, the screen was displaying everything totally properly I would say. I was a bit worried though about some greenish colour when the Nexus was in the Chrome browser. But that can also be only me.
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Nothing special, to be honest. As mentioned in one of the comments under the video, he should have had the camera straight over the phones at the 90 degrees angle and set brightness equally. To me it doesn't seem as if the brightness was set equally... But maybe that's only me.
Aside from that, the screen was displaying everything totally properly I would say. I was a bit worried though about some greenish colour when the Nexus was in the Chrome browser. But that can also be only me.
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i agree with this.
the second video is better,90 degrees angle for both.
I hope kernel devs will modify display gamma for a bit more saturated colors,as the one X and iphone 5 :good:
And in the second video the GS3 screen was way too vivid, my eyes hurt But I guess it's just a thing you can get accustomed to, AMOLED screen that is.
Overall, Nexus seems pretty color - accurate to me. As soon as I get mine, I'll definitely post some RAW photos from my DSLR so you guys will be able to truly compare them to others. I think it would be a good idea though to post some decent RAW photos and let the community judge. Simple but effective.
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check this out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGQ49MOIlcA
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Very nice but I sure wish I knew what the hell he was saying.
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nic85 said:
another here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ncrd6DOIA
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Not sure if it is just me but this video quality was horrendous. Both displays looked awful. I am not sure what he was using for a video camera but for a display comparison I think he needs something better.
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They all look good to me, you cannot go wrong with any screen. People can keep comparing under a camera lens and through the bias of their own monitor, however if you had any of these phones without all the others to compare then you'd be happy.
Personally I prefer OLED because of the black levels but tbh I don't care all that much.
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another here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ncrd6DOIA
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Both displays looked great but you could tell that the Nexus had better colour reproduction and the whites were a lot better as well. S3 definitely seems to have some sort of a hue when it comes to producing whites. In the video he played the black levels looked pretty close.
Must be my display then.. the first video looked great but the second one was no good. I could not get a real great view. I will watch again later using my next 7.
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Richieboy67 said:
Must be my display then.. the first video looked great but the second one was no good. I could not get a real great view. I will watch again later using my next 7.
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I think you just didn't watch the video long enough. It starts off horrible and I was about to stop the video. But it becomes really clear around the time he starts comparing the snake heads.
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I think you just didn't watch the video long enough. It starts off horrible and I was about to stop the video. But it becomes really clear around the time he starts comparing the snake heads.
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Thanks, I will try again. I watched about half and gave up.
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I was shocked at how washed out the Nexus 4 display looked to me when I first got it.
I don't notice it at all now - the display is beautiful. The iPhone 5 display appears to be of better overall quality, but I'll take the N4s screen size any day.
Does anyone else's camera do this even when underexposing by -2?
anyone? nice to confirm if it's not right.
I've also noticed issues when taking pictures where there is very low overall light and a single bright light source as well as very bright photos (outdoors with Sun reflection).
The phone seems to have an issue balancing the light exposure. It appears to be software related. I can usually find the happy medium after tapping different areas to find better auto focus/expose areas. Using HDR mode also mitigates this problem, but introduces blur sometimes.
I'm confident it's a software issue that will be resolved.
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Digital cameras are inherently god awful at high dynamic range shots. What our eyes see is many levels of awesome better than what a camera can process. Go find a point and shoot and take that same picture and you'll find the same problem. Either it will blow out the light or it will under-expose the frame.
HDR modes are helpful in mitigating this problem, but they're still a cheat.
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An Slr would have no problem. Lol
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An Slr would have no problem. Lol
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It really depends on how much brighter it is outside than inside. But yeah, SLRs have crazy big pixels so yeah, they tend to be better with dynamic range.
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Camera remains my biggest disappointment. Videos good with the high gain mics though but this over exposure or whatever the issue is with light sources ... GRRR
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So maybe I have a setting wrong or this is just how the phone is, but every photo I've taken so far has looks very pixelated. It looks great on the phone screen but as soon as I upload it to facebook it looks like junk.
Any ideas?
Facebook and many other places online to share pics reduce the size of pics quite a bit. I'd blame fb rather than the phone.
You could also check settings in camera to see if it's set to a lower megapixel than the 4mp maximum just to be sure.
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Well it should be pixelated because 1) dark areas on many camera shot have noise and 2) ultra pixels are larger than normal so on this cam we get decent day shots and awesome night shot.
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Facebook and many other places online to share pics reduce the size of pics quite a bit. I'd blame fb rather than the phone.
You could also check settings in camera to see if it's set to a lower megapixel than the 4mp maximum just to be sure.
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Where is that under the camera settings. I see Video Quality, but I dont see anything that lists photo quality/pixel size.
Well you're right. I swear I saw the option to change resolution but I can't find it again
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howie411 said:
So maybe I have a setting wrong or this is just how the phone is, but every photo I've taken so far has looks very pixelated. It looks great on the phone screen but as soon as I upload it to facebook it looks like junk.
Any ideas?
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I don't know if this is the problem or not, but here's my input (I'm a photographer):
There isn't any zoom on the camera lens, so when you "zoom," all you're effectively doing is cropping. The One doesn't resize the image, so it could create a pretty small image if you're zoomed in.
The other possibility (unless you're absolutely positive that the problem is pixelation) is that with the auto ISO setting, it might look grainy, especially in the dark. You can manually choose lower ISO, and yield a clearer (but darker) image.
Or, as the others have said, different apps may be the culprit. Have you tried loading the image directly from your phone to your computer?
UltraPixel= Larger pixels, great for night, not as good for during the day
http://www.androidcentral.com/megap...sung-galaxy-s4-versus-htc-one-camera-shootout
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UltraPixel= Larger pixels, great for night, not as good for during the day
http://www.androidcentral.com/megap...sung-galaxy-s4-versus-htc-one-camera-shootout
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This has been discussed before in other threads. The camera sucks... This whole "Ultrapixle" crap is just a bunch of bull****.
I get great results from the camera. Day and night.
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Wow... Some of the suggestions on here are funny. It has nothing to do with the camera. It's an amazing camera and I post to facebook from it all the time. What you are experiencing is entirely on mobile data. I work at a repair center and we see this nearly every day. Because of all the changes sprints going through this year it's causing issues with photos uploaded and viewed online and primarily through apps. If you are using WiFi to upload to facebook and then viewing facebook on the same WiFi immediately after and are still experiencing this issue them check your router or reset it. If this continues then have your phone replaced. It's not handling u/d data properly.
Again.. this is not your camera. I have discussed this with several people here and through my job and it has been proven time and time again it's the network not the phone. In most cases and in some(rare) it's the phone itself and a simple replacement fixes the issue
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tkoreaper said:
This has been discussed before in other threads. The camera sucks... This whole "Ultrapixle" crap is just a bunch of bull****.
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This camera is amazing. It's the user that usually sucks
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The camera would be better if it had manual focus. The tap to focus is crap and AF is non existent.
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Wow... Some of the suggestions on here are funny. It has nothing to do with the camera. It's an amazing camera and I post to facebook from it all the time. What you are experiencing is entirely on mobile data. I work at a repair center and we see this nearly every day. Because of all the changes sprints going through this year it's causing issues with photos uploaded and viewed online and primarily through apps. If you are using WiFi to upload to facebook and then viewing facebook on the same WiFi immediately after and are still experiencing this issue them check your router or reset it. If this continues then have your phone replaced. It's not handling u/d data properly.
Again.. this is not your camera. I have discussed this with several people here and through my job and it has been proven time and time again it's the network not the phone. In most cases and in some(rare) it's the phone itself and a simple replacement fixes the issue
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This camera is amazing. It's the user that usually sucks
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Amazing compared to what, a flip phone? I've already sent in my ONE to get it "fixed", but the camera still took poor quality pictures. My old S3 takes better pictures than this thing.
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Amazing compared to what, a flip phone? I've already sent in my ONE to get it "fixed", but the camera still took poor quality pictures. My old S3 takes better pictures than this thing.
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I agree it's the user but I have read instances where focus was an issue related to faulty hardware.
Proof the htc one camera is amazing - http://www.reddit.com/r/oneography
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I agree it's the user but I have read instances where focus was an issue related to faulty hardware.
Proof the htc one camera is amazing - http://www.reddit.com/r/oneography
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Those pictures are good, but not because of the camera... it's the scenery. However these pictures further prove my point. Look at those pictures and notice the blurry/hazy effect of everything not in the center on the picture. Look at the picture of the Red rocks... the whole right side looks like crap. Had these pictures been taken with my S3 the entire picture would be crisp.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/...5879103770744579522&oid=114157047189530288078 is another good example. I can understand the background being way out of focus, but there's no excuse for the right side of the picture.
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Wow... Some of the suggestions on here are funny. It has nothing to do with the camera. It's an amazing camera and I post to facebook from it all the time. What you are experiencing is entirely on mobile data. I work at a repair center and we see this nearly every day. Because of all the changes sprints going through this year it's causing issues with photos uploaded and viewed online and primarily through apps. If you are using WiFi to upload to facebook and then viewing facebook on the same WiFi immediately after and are still experiencing this issue them check your router or reset it. If this continues then have your phone replaced. It's not handling u/d data properly.
Again.. this is not your camera. I have discussed this with several people here and through my job and it has been proven time and time again it's the network not the phone. In most cases and in some(rare) it's the phone itself and a simple replacement fixes the issue
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This camera is amazing. It's the user that usually sucks
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Way to add something "useful" to the conversation. Go troll elsewhere. I just asked a question.
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Those pictures are good, but not because of the camera... it's the scenery. However these pictures further prove my point. Look at those pictures and notice the blurry/hazy effect of everything not in the center on the picture. Look at the picture of the Red rocks... the whole right side looks like crap. Had these pictures been taken with my S3 the entire picture would be crisp.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/...5879103770744579522&oid=114157047189530288078 is another good example. I can understand the background being way out of focus, but there's no excuse for the right side of the picture.
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There have been some cameras on the one with hardware problems that affect focus. One side or the other would be blurry. It's not how the camera is intended. But also keep in mind that the low f-stop this camera uses causes a shallow depth of field, which gives a blurred background or foreground effect. This is often an artsy look. It's a low f-stop to also let more light in.
By the way, the pic you linked to was one of mine and that blurred effect was what I was going for with the shallow depth of field. I switched on macro mode to get more of the effect. I get the same kind of pictures from my DSLR.
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Way to add something "useful" to the conversation. Go troll elsewhere. I just asked a question.
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It's actually very useful information considering we see your problem every day. I'm telling you what the problem is and what it is not
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I would rather use my camera (that is designed to take pictures) to take pictures that I want to show off/print.. My camera phone is just for those quick "can't miss it" times.
Quick can't miss it moments, yes! Or when I forget to bring my camera. I printed an 8x10 of a great scenery recently and it turned out great
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tsdeaton said:
Wow... Some of the suggestions on here are funny. It has nothing to do with the camera. It's an amazing camera and I post to facebook from it all the time. What you are experiencing is entirely on mobile data. I work at a repair center and we see this nearly every day. Because of all the changes sprints going through this year it's causing issues with photos uploaded and viewed online and primarily through apps. If you are using WiFi to upload to facebook and then viewing facebook on the same WiFi immediately after and are still experiencing this issue them check your router or reset it. If this continues then have your phone replaced. It's not handling u/d data properly.
Again.. this is not your camera. I have discussed this with several people here and through my job and it has been proven time and time again it's the network not the phone. In most cases and in some(rare) it's the phone itself and a simple replacement fixes the issue
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Biggest load of crap I've ever read. Nothing you ever say makes sense to me since the LGOG threads.. If it's a mobile data issue why is it only a HTC One issue? You're the typical Sprint rep who says any bs to silence a customer. I've been uploading from a Evo LTE and a Note 2 in a very congested crappy data city with none of those issues. It's just how the camera is on the One, it is 4mp after all.. I myself was never amazed by the camera which is why I skipped on the One. Nice features but you can definitely see a loss of quality due to it being only a 4mp cam.
Ps I like how you say it's a mobile data thing but then say to reset your router :what: :screwy:
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When I set my shutter speed in manual mode to anything between 2.5 and 4 seconds (for long exposures) it seems that my camera draws MUCH more light and makes the screen and picture almost completely white. I have verified that the flash is off. I am new to long exposure photography and I know a phone isn't the best device for it, but I have seen a few reviews which mentioned it on this phone and thought I'd give it a try. Is anyone else noticing this? I am testing it in my office and the screen is almost a solid white. Thank you in advance
klarthur said:
When I set my shutter speed in manual mode to anything between 2.5 and 4 seconds (for long exposures) it seems that my camera draws MUCH more light and makes the screen and picture almost completely white. I have verified that the flash is off. I am new to long exposure photography and I know a phone isn't the best device for it, but I have seen a few reviews which mentioned it on this phone and thought I'd give it a try. Is anyone else noticing this? I am testing it in my office and the screen is almost a solid white. Thank you in advance
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Long exposure shots are usually used at night when it's not as bright. Pictures of the night sky where you can see the star trails, or the pictures of cars on the highway with the headlights as a streak are examples of long exposure. Using long exposure when the is enough light for a normal picture will cause it to look washed out (overexposed) try the long exposure shot outside at night. If you have kids give them sparklers. It's a cool way to have fun with the family and get some really cool pictures.
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Long exposure shots are usually used at night when it's not as bright. Pictures of the night sky where you can see the star trails, or the pictures of cars on the highway with the headlights as a streak are examples of long exposure. Using long exposure when the is enough light for a normal picture will cause it to look washed out (overexposed) try the long exposure shot outside at night. If you have kids give them sparklers. It's a cool way to have fun with the family and get some really cool pictures.
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Thank you for the response. That makes much more sense! I appreciate you explaining it to a camera noobie like me Thanked!
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Thank you for the response. That makes much more sense! I appreciate you explaining it to a camera noobie like me Thanked!
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No problem. My girlfriend has a cannon rebel t3i so we have taken a few long exposure shots. Very cool but kinda tricky. We have always used a tripod to hold the camera.
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